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People who live in mobile home parks are in an unusual situation.

Many own their manufactured homes, but they don’t own the land their house sits on.

Their landlords can raise lot rents, ignore maintenance needs or even close down the entire mobile home park.

Simply packing up the mobile home and finding a new park is expensive, and sometimes impossible.

But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Dan Gorenstein reports, the Granite State is a national leader in efforts to give these residents more control of their lives by turning them into park owners.